Media Player Classic - Media Made Simple Again
Like a lot of people, I use my computer as a complete multimedia center; books, music, movies, you name it. The different types of media by themselves take up system resources just to play, so you really don’t need a fancied up media player contributing to the problems, do you?
Skins, visual effects, and all those other pretty things are really cool things to look at, but completely unnecessary. If you’re using a notebook, and running it off the battery, all the extra junk that is used by Windows Media Player and iTunes (and others) can make you lose your juice that much quicker. There are solutions out there though, and Media Player Classic is one of the very best.
Designed to look and behave like the Windows Media Player of old (awe, the good ol’ days), it’s very simple to operate. You tell it to open a file; it plays it. No screwing around with libraries, just follow your file tree. The basic controls are right there at your finger tips. Combined with a good codec pack, there is very little Media Player Classic will not play. Very light on resources as well.
There are tons of more advanced features available for you power users, but there isn’t much sense in me getting into all that; if you’re a power user you’re already using this (or VLC). This is getting a big recommendation from me, I don’t think any of you will be disappointed with it; in fact I’d wager you wouldn’t want a computer without it after you get used to it. Oh yeah, it’s free!
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media player classic, open source, software
January 21st, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I use this for customer’s computers when they want to play DVD’s because the file size is so small. The only piece of software I have found to rival this is VLC, but it has more advanced features that aren’t newb friendly.
January 21st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Yeah, that’s why I recommended it. Anyone should be able to fire it up and get it running. VLC is powerful, but can get complicated.